MRS. JANE TWICHELL WARE.

The early and honored workers under the American Missionary Association in the South are passing away.  But the sharp sorrow of parting from them is relieved by the memory of their self-denying and useful work, and especially where these dear friends threw over those dark days and trying experiences the halo of personal excellence, sweetness of disposition and a manner full of cheerful vivacity.

Such an one was Mrs. Ware.  She entered the service among the Freedmen in the autumn of 1865, and in Norfolk, Virginia; Charleston, South Carolina; and Atlanta, Georgia, cast the radiance of her bright countenance and cheerful spirits over her serious and most successful work.  She was a joy in the circle of her associates and an inspiration to her pupils.

In 1869, the year in which the Atlanta University was founded, she was united in marriage to Rev. E.A.  Ware, its President, and they with others gave the moulding touch to the University, and won for it the confidence of the friends at the North, and an annual appropriation from the State of Georgia.  In her own pleasant home and in various services to the institution, she made herself useful.  In 1885 her husband died suddenly from heart failure, and from that time onward she was left to face alone the serious pulmonary trouble which two years before had fastened itself upon her.  Bravely and in hope did she battle with the adversary, until at length in the home of her brother, Rev. Jos.  H. Twichell, of Hartford, she passed away February 17, 1890, in the forty-sixth year of her age, and her remains were laid to rest among her kindred in the village burying ground at Plantsville, Connecticut.  A bright light has faded out from earth, a brighter one has dawned in Heaven.

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PARAGRAPHS.

The mention of the fact, in the last number of the MISSIONARY, that Dr. Patton was one of the members of the Convention in Albany that formed the American Missionary Association, suggests the inquiry as to how many of those then present are now alive?  If those who know the facts, either by their personal presence on that occasion or otherwise, will send to us the names of such survivors, we will be greatly obliged.

An envelope containing a gift of five dollars was dropped into the contribution bag recently among others, after an address concerning our work.  It was from a faithful colored woman who had spent her life in domestic service, and represented as true and earnest self-denial as money could.  Not all the heroism and self-sacrifice are in the field work, among the missionaries of our great Association, as true and earnest as they are.  There is the same spirit of devotion to the Master in the collecting field.  We thank God for it, and take courage to go forward in this work of saving these destitute millions in our land.

“I enclose a draft for fifty dollars to be used by the American Missionary Association in such way as they think wilt do the most good.  I am in my ninety-first year but when I read of the doings of the Association in Chicago, it made me feel almost young.  My prayer to God is that he will continue his blessing on the Association.”